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Hardcover Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) In Medieval China Book

ISBN: 0674033329

ISBN13: 9780674033320

Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) In Medieval China

(Book #316 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)

Throughout Chinese history mountains have been integral components of the religious landscape. They have been considered divine or numinous sites, the abodes of deities, the preferred locations for temples and monasteries, and destinations for pilgrims. Early in Chinese history a set of five mountains were co-opted into the imperial cult and declared sacred peaks, yue, demarcating and protecting the boundaries of the Chinese imperium.

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